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nearly white ; through the eye a broad, black patch, passing down 

 over the ears, but just behind the eye rufous ; across the breast a bar 

 of black ; tail rounded, or slightly cuneiform, blue-grey like the 

 back, and the wings reach one inch beyond the rump ; legs rufous. 

 This was supposed to have come from the South Sea Isles, but M . 

 Levaillant only saw the skin. 



A. — In the drawings of Sir J. Anstruther is a bird similar to this. 

 Bill black, a trifle bent at the tip ; head, hind part of the neck, and 

 throat blue, with a dash of blue on the wing coverts ; from the gape, 

 through the eye, a broad black streak, passing down on each side of 

 the neck to the back, the upper part of which is also black ; wings 

 and tail black ; base of the second quills white, forming a spot; the 

 breast, belly, vent, lower part of the back, and upper tail coverts 

 ferruginous ; legs reddish brown ; the wings reach a little beyond the 

 base of the tail, which is short. Another of these had a curved 

 blue mark on the wing coverts, and a larger bed of white on the 

 wings ; these two are, no doubt, the same bird. Another in the 

 same drawings was seven inches long ; the head, neck, breast, and 

 all above, the wings, and tail brown, the feathers edged with bluish; 

 from breast to vent pale ferruginous; thighs mottled grey, with 

 brown specks; tail paler than the wings; the latter, when closed, 

 reach about halfway on it; bill and legs black. 



These birds inhabit Bengal and other parts of India. The last 

 described may probably be a young bird. 



31.— WHITE-TAILED THRUSH— Pl. lxxxi. 



Turdus leucurus, Ind. Orn. i. 344. Gm. Lin. i. 820. 



Corvus totus niger, rectricibus basi albis, Faun. Arag. p. 72. 



Saxicola cachinnans, Traquet rieux, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. 236. 



White-tailed Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 49. pl. 38. Id. Sup. 142. Shaw's Zool. x. 230. pl. 22. 



THIS is much smaller than any other known species of European 

 Thrushes, being only seven inches and a half in length, and eleven 



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